There is nothing more beautiful than having to embed legacy shit into an new website because the customer is a cheap arse and doesn't want to budget the whole pissing redesign package of his website.
I hope you choke on the next meal your stinky gullet has to swallow!

Had almost the same happening to me.. I was tasked with creating a web viewer for a Windows based application. The "old guard" suggested if we could just upload all the firebird databases and use this. Well f you your application already takes 5 minutes to start because of this.